Dutch manufacturer of flexible packaging, Kivo, has taken out 1st prize in the 1st EFTA Benelux Flexo Awards using printing inks by the Doneck Network.
The European Flexographic Technical Association Benelux (EFTA-Benelux) currently has 90 members, and was founded in 1981 for flexographic printing companies in the Benelux countries. Its aim is to inform and continue to educate the industry on technical innovations and developments.
The first ever EFTA Benelux Flexo Award was presented at the Hilton Hotel in Antwerp on Thursday 26 November 2015, with flexographic printing providers from Belgium and the Netherlands competing for it in seven different categories. The winners are also nominated for the 2016 European Flexo Award Europa.
Kivo Verpakkingen claimed first prize in the category for flexographic printing on short-grain film with “Chicken Wings”, which was printed using inks supplied by the Doneck Network. The judges comprised experts from various disciplines within the flexographic printing industry.
The winning food packaging was printed on Windmöller & Hölscher’s Miraflex using the four-colour process with a 122-lpi cliché grid and a 400l/cm anilox roller.
“We’re pleased about our customers’ high quality standards, and like the fact that our products are contributing to such outstanding print results. Our very positive expectations for our solvent-based ink systems have been confirmed,” says a happy Arndt Breitbach, Managing Director of the Doneck Network.
